Professor Jon Berrick, from the National University of Singapore, proposed Tasmania as the ideal testing ground to introduce a ban on cigarette sales to everyone born after the year 2000.

According to a report by The Mercury, Berrick said Tasmania, an Australian island and state, would be an ideal place to trial the proposal because the state had a good record of bipartisan political support on tobacco controls.
Tasmania's anti-smoking lobby groups Quit Tasmania, the Cancer Council and the Asthma Foundation said the proposal had merits and should be further investigated.
Berrick said the idea was a "decisive measure", unlike other anti-smoking moves that only "chipped away" at the problem. "Once you do this, the end is in sight," he said. He said the ban would rely on proof of age, either through drivers licences that showed people's birthdates or some other proof of ID card. (pi)